New unit of distance?

[sailorman]

ITV news "the boat flipped vertically" Fyffe Robertson must be turning in his grave

 

[Jegs]

Oh come on, it is the biased broad. corp - they probably much of their time trying to think up ways to force people to pay them more than they're worth.

ATB,

John G

 

[rbmatthews]

Er. Isn't 1" of latitude a nautical mile? ...

Er, no, but 1' of latitude is.

Just sayin'.

 

[elton]

Yes sorry it should have been divided by 1.852 ( or times 0.540)

I see.

That's the kind of error I make after 5 bottles of Brown, so no wonder your reply made no sense at all.

 

[Lon nan Gruagach]

Yes, I found that when I Googled earlier, but it makes no sense to me.

Consider that to be confirmation of your concept of reality, or in other words the author of the article is barking mad.

 

[chewi]

Hey, if the BEEB are making up distances... who's to say how long they should be???

The program about Mini production at Cowley had Kate Humble quoting "square acres" for the size of the plant. Does nobody in the media even have GCSE Science.

 

[johnalison]

Er, no, but 1' of latitude is.

Just sayin'.

Yes. I think my diplopia got the better of me. But it was " in the original quote before it mysteriously changed to ' and then back in #17 & 18.

 

[Andrew_Trayfoot]

Not a bad program otherwise...
The program about the mini I mean!

 

[Laysula]

I believe that a nautical kilometre is equivalent to 1000 nautical metres.

 

[elton]

Interesting item about BBC abuse and misuse of units they use but don't understand, on PM this evening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kj2jy (from 42:41)